Tor Spirea

 

My Tor Spireas look amazing this fall! They just seem to glow -

Pond Patio

 My plan is to add a stone border to this new garden area. In this picture, I haven't started planting and as you can see, I don't have the path quite done. I hope to have enough stone to add a border to the edge of the garden. We are supposed to have a nice weekend, so I hope to add some bulbs and finish up my planting.

Fall Color

 Russian sage, fireworks goldenrod and mums are blooming in this picture, taken on October 7.

 

West Side of Pond

 

 

 

On the west side of the pond, I've planted a redbud clump. It is an understory tree - meant to grow under the canopy of the birches around the pond. I also planted some shrubs - while they are in full sun right now, eventually, they will be in shade for at least half of the day, so I chose ruby spice clethra and autumn magic chokeberry. Both of these types of shrubs will sucker and will eventually form a nice colony.  I've been moving shrubs and perennials from other areas of the yard to this area, too. I've also added small paths - eventually the stone edge you see in the bottom picture will be one side of a larger path that goes around the entire pond.

Water Lily bloom

My water lilies are doing much better since I added fertilizer - next summer, I will add one tablet to the soil each month.

Sunset on the Pond

Beautiful cloud formation reflected in the pond.

What a nice evening! (September 2)

Robins in the Pond

One of the fun things about our pond is that it attracts birds - three robins are enjoying the water in this picture.  One day I watched about ten baby robins hop in and out of the stream.